Woodside Petroleum

Woodside Petroleum is major oil and gas company headquartered in Perth, Australia. The company's major project is the North West Shelf Venture in Western Australia but it also has interests in projects in Africa, the United States and the Middle East.

On Global Warming and Emissions Trading
Voelte and Woodside Petroleum, one of the world's largest producers of Liquid Natural Gas (LNG) has been voluble critics of the Australian government's proposed emissions trading scheme, the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme. 'We shouldn't be in the emissions trading scheme at all, we should be seen as a fuel that is part of the solution, not part of the problem," he told the Australian Finanial Review in February 2009. "We don't understand why the government is wanting to act early. We don't want to be a leader, lets be a fast follower and wait to see what happens in Copenhagen," he said.

Directors
Accessed March 2008:


 * Michael Chaney, AO - Chairman
 * Don Voelte - Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer
 * Jillian Broadbent, AO
 * Erich Fraunschiel
 * Andrew Jamieson, OBE
 * Pierre Jungels
 * David McEvoy
 * Din Megat
 * Jakob Stausholm

Former Personnel

 * John Akehurst, Managing Director
 * Charles Allen (Australia) was Managing Director of Woodside Petroleum from January 1980-May 1996.

Contact details

 * 1 Adelaide Terrace, Perth, Western Australia 6000, Australia
 * Web: http://www.woodside.com.au/Home.htm

Related Sourcewatch articles

 * Peter Willcox - former director